Surrender All

Count your blessings, name them one by one,
Count your blessings, see what God has done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.

So many Hymns in my Spirit lately, I seem to keep finding myself singing one after  another. Just the other day I woke up with this tune in my heart and on my lips and I thought to share it to encourage you and me with all the truth it is filled with. Isn't it just so beautiful how relatable hymns are, crazy how I used to think of them as 'old folk music'. How amazing the words that meant everything to followers of Christ then mean just as much if not more to followers of Christ now. I plan on having a collection of these and I look forward to teaching them to my babies :).

So it's an interesting and very exciting time for me. My Re-Birth aka my salvation and total surrender to Jesus is turning one year old next month !! During the course of the Month of August 2014, I finally said yes to Jesus from the deepest corners of my heart, from places I had never even known existed within me. Everything I was holding onto, everything that I placed as more important than Him I was finally ready to release into His care and Trust that He was better. My gut always said He was but Christianity simply didn't seem like 'fun'/ 'the way to live'. But I was broken, I was at my end, enough was enough, I was self destructing all in the name of what I regarded as the better way to live. Honestly, yes it did 'feel good' most of the time, but it wasn't necessarily good to and for me ( plus no one ever got anywhere worth going in life by letting their feelings control their life) and deep down I just knew it wasn't enough.There was more to me, there just had to be more to my life.

Without a shadow of a doubt, I now truly know and believe that life doesn't get better than this... In Jesus is what true living really is! There is no better way..... His way is the way, His way is the truth, His way is the life.

I look back at how in just a few months I have grown in Love and Faith for Jesus Christ. No the journey has not been easy but it has and still is and will always be worth it all . My Lord Jesus turned out to be everything I ever wanted, just what I was looking for and more!! There is no living without Him. There is no life without Him!! And if it's not Him I am consciously serving and worshipping, I will end up serving and worshipping something else whether I am aware of it or not, and it will never satisfy my soul.

It all started with surrendering my all. Allowing His opinion about me and my life to be higher than anyone else's. I gave Him all of me. I placed down my armoury and said "that's it God, I am done fighting and shaking you off. You win. You can have me." I gave into His pursuit for my soul. I began the process of saying Yes to Him everyday for the rest of my life and now, a year later, I am like.. Yooooo!!! why didn't I do this sooner! What took me so long??!! This is where it's at!! It really is! Jesus is the answer! To anything and everything on and beyond this life. What I held onto and finally gave up doesn't even compare to what I am getting in return. He is the exceeding and abundant giver in things way bigger than material perishable earthly worth.

If you don't know what I am talking about, I wish and pray that you can get to understanding who He really is. God is much more than just this ambiguous supernatural thing / feeling. He is my Father, my Best Friend, my Lover. Yes He is Lord over my life and I live to worship and serve Him all the days of my life, but we are in a relationship. We communicate. I grow deeper in love with Him with each passing day because what He is about is inexhaustible. We get intimate and so real.

I have grown a hunger and thirst for His true and living word, the bible. I am always left amazed by all the rich knowledge of Himself that He is just waiting for us to open up, dig in, explore, learn, understand. His word is alive, and to think I only just scratched the surface.

If you don't know Him as your saviour, I urge you to go on and begin a relationship with Him. He loves you just as you are, He wants to fill you up and make you whole. Feel you up from within. Bring your soul to life in ways more money, cars, career or business success, a spouse, children and all that good stuff we are always chasing could never ever do. Come to Him just as you are by believing in His unconditional love, His forgivingness of all your sin and accepting His salvation. Ask Him to come into your life. Don't seek religion, seek Him. Don't go after what He can give and do for you, instead go after Him for who He is - He is Love. Go after a relationship with Him. He loves you and He is waiting for you. He longs to be in a relationship with you, for you to know Him intimately and for you to see yourself the way He see's you. For you to find your true identity and that is only found in Him for He created you, He is your maker. He knows you more than you know yourself.

Listen to that voice deep inside of you calling and nudging you to say yes to Him.

And still in the spirit of Hyms...

You alone are the real joy giver

and the apple of my eye.

You're my friend and you are my brother

Even though you are a king

I love you more than any other

So much more than anything

You alone are my strength, my shield 

To You alone may my spirit yield 

You alone are my heart's desire 

And I long to worship Thee

As the deer panteth for the water

So my soul longeth after Thee

You alone are my heart's desire

And I long to worship Thee

Every Blessing,

Love, Ree.

Trust and Obey. (Photo: Google Images)

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Give it to The Scriptwriter

Today I will share with you one of the lessons God has been cementing in my life this month in the hope that It will leave you asking yourself some deep yet vital life questions.

My assumption is that you are probably are movie or tv show fan or at-least know what those kind of people can be like. I was one of them, I used to be all up in tv shows like crazy, there was a time I was probably hooked to an average of about 20 shows at a time. Though lately, it calls for an applause if I can even get to watch just one movie in a month, I guess simply because my life priorities have changed and also quite frankly, I am practising being cautious of what I expose myself to, and a lot of what shows on our screens that I used to be cool with, I now know I'd rather not. I now question myself before hitting play. There are a lot of toxic messages on our screens being played out in such a subtle innocent way that many of us do not realise the wrong messages we are taking in. But the point I am making is this, I totally get what it is like to be hooked to a show, to hang on onto each and every episode, to each season, to never want the show to end like your life depended on it. Kudos to all the amazing actors and the entire team that brings all these stories to life, but above all, kudos to the scriptwriters who create such captivating stories for everybody to fall in on.

It is a beautiful thing coming to this realisation, that I think of God the very same way, I think of God like the ultimate scriptwriter. The Author of the story of each of our lives! He sees the beginning from the end. Just like a tv show when we are caught up in an episode where everything is going terribly wrong and we are lost in emotions and are screaming at our screens wanting to intervene or arguing among fellow fans of the show about what we think is going to happen, meanwhile the writer and all those who already know what comes next are like, "if you only knew what this twist is about to birth!". Because they know the whole story, they see the whole picture.

We give the scriptwriter complete control of how the show or movie will go, we relinquish all power and trust them to do a good job with the time and money and whatever else we invest as we get caught up in the drama of that story. But after all is said and done, it is all fiction.

The Million Dollar question is this, do we do the same with the Author of our real authentic lives? Do we relinquish all power to Him? Do we trust Him completely? Do we believe He can do the best job with our lives? Like it says in Isaiah 46:10 , do we realise he sees the beginning from the end? He made us, he made the world we live in, this is his story, and we are simply actors, we should be falling in. Or have we decided that we can do this better than He can and are creating unauthorised stories within His story? Did we seek his approval before going ahead with what we think are better plans for our lives? Do we realise we can't really see the end, I mean we can hope it goes the way we plan it to, but that's absurd, because we have no control of our future in that sense, only He can tell the future before it even happens. Where does this leave us? Labouring in vain because all the work, all the hours, all the sweat we put in will be considered null and void as it did not have the approval from the screenwriter of our lives. The bible says Proverbs 19:21 ( NLT) that many are the plans we make for our lives, but when it's all said and done, it is the Lord's purpose that will prevail.

I think for those of us that trust in Him, a lot of us may not realise it but sometimes we trust God to handle matters abcd then in other areas we subconsciously kinda sorta trust Him, but want to remain captain of the ship. I pray that we may all get to a place of total surrender, giving him full control of our lives, and that we stay there.

So how about you let go and let God, how about you give your 100% trust to the scriptwriter of your life and follow His lead.

I personally believe God is undoubtedly the best scriptwriter there ever was and there ever will be! When you let God write your life story, you are in for the best ride of your life!!! He will take you from episode to episode hanging on the edge of your seat looking forward to the next. He will keep bringing it, season after season. Amidst the laughter, tears, drama and all, in retrospect, you can't help but hand it to Him. The scenes of laughter and those of tears will all add up! The sunny and rainy days will all make sense and you wouldn't wish for a different story. In my opinion, He writes the best award winning stories of each of our lives ever!!! ....if we let Him.

Sitting at the feet of Jesus is where you prepare for all areas of your life! When you have God you have everything you ever needed for your life. In Him you have all that you need!

Let go and Let God. Surrender your life to Him. Give Him absolute control. Trust Him. You will not regret it.

Love, Ree

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